| Monsoon Wedding (2002) |
| Love Medicine, by Louise Erdrich |
| Secrets & Lies (1996) |
| The Jackson Five |
| Smoke Signals (1999), written by Sherman Alexie |
| This House of Sky—Ivan Doig's moving memoir of growing up in rural Montana with his father and grandmother |
| "Soap"—the late 70's TV show with Billy Crystal |
| Sophocles—the real father of the Oedipus Complex (author of Oedipus Rex, Antigone, and Electra) |
| Sister Sledge |
| All About My Mother (1999), a film by Pedro Almodóvar |
| All My Sons, by Arthur Miller |
| What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993) |
| Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)—Bette Davis sings "I've Written a Letter to Daddy" in one of the creepiest, campiest scenes on film |
| Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev |
| Hank Williams and Hank Williams, Jr. |
| The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan |
| The Celebration (1998)—family tension and disturbing revelations upset a father's fancy 60th birthday party |
| Affliction—Russell Banks's portrait of a man scarred by his father's violence and alcoholism |
| The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)—yet another messed up family, but this one is wealthier and funnier |
| Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton |
| The Snapper (1993) |
| Woody and Arlo Guthrie |
| William Faulkner—for his stories of the families in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi |
| Howard's End, by E.M. Forster |
| The House of the Spirts, by Isabel Allende |
| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, by Anne Tyler |
| My Big Fat Greek Wedding—this year's sleeper hit |
| Loudon Wainwright III and Rufus Wainwright—the son's cover of his dad's "One Man Guy" is good, but father still plays best |
| Paper Moon (1973) |
| "The Partridge Family" |
